New in version 9.2 BETA 2 (August 9th, 2013)

Fixed an issue with Intel video chipsets not loading the correct kernel module causing a system crash

Added the ability to specify a ZFS pool name during installation

Added the ability to "Force 4K" block-sizes during installation

Fixed several bugs relating to "freebsd-update"

Fixed a number of mounting-related bugs for removable media

Added a new "Boot Config" GUI for managing Boot-Environments graphically

Slimmed down the USBFULL image to fit on a 4GB memory stick again

Correct an issue with USBFULL memory stick needing a fsck after a crash

Fixed an issue with broken entries for Windows Vista/7 in GRUB menus

Corrected an issue fetching FreeBSD 8.3/8.4 jail files via the warden

New in version 9.1 RC3 (November 17th, 2012)

PC-BSD handbook has been updated for 9.1

Fixed bug where some keyboard layouts were not being displayed

Multiple functionality and stability improvements for EasyPBI

Multiple functionality and stability improvements for TrueOS

New functionality improvements including better detection added to the mount-tray

Fixed bug where default mount points were not being set correctly using ZFS mirror/raidz mode

Fixed bug where update manager was not displaying the proper error text when failing

Added new ability to create ZFS datasets for jail environments

Added UK wireless channel 12 support

Fixed bug where Linux jails were not importing properly

Mirrors are now auto detected and set based upon location

Automatic ZFS 4K blocksize enabled by default

System manager should now show the correct dialog for “default”

auto-detected mirrors.

New in version 9.1 RC1 (August 24th, 2012)

Based on FreeBSD 9.1-RC1.

Added new functionality to the warden client. You can now schedule daily / hourly creation of jail snapshots. You may also set the number of days worth of jails you wish to keep. Old jail snapshots will be removed automatically.

Improve the shutdown scripts to make sure we unmount, even if the jail was manually stopped.

Added Active Directory / LDAP backend and GUI utility.

Fixed a number of bugs relating to jail creation / management.

Auto-enable the flash plugin when creating new users.

Added some initial packages to TrueOS, such as sudo / bash and others.

Bugfixes to AppCafe.

Fixed Window Maker startup issues.

Added the Enlightenment (E17) desktop as an unsupported desktop meta-package.

Added lots of new packages for TrueOS / Warden.

New in version 9.1 Beta 1 (July 18th, 2012)

FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1

KDE 4.8.4

Support for "Warden" to create Linux Jails (Debian & Gentoo support included)

Fixed a bug with mouse cursor fonts changing over some tray apps

Correct some bugs with mouse not being detected after display wizard

Add new "TrueOS" server option, alongside FreeBSD Vanilla.

Display detected video resolution / driver on confirmation screen

Add new IPv4 / IPv6 validation to address fields

Fix bugs exporting / importing jails via Warden

Add new "Hardware Compatibility Check" GUI, which is available during install and via Control Panel

Fixed CUPS ppd search paths, which improves number of available printing drivers.

New in version 7.1 Beta 1 (March 10th, 2009)

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.1-BETA1, running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE, and KDE 4.2.1. Version 7.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. Some of the changes are: KDE 4.2.1; X.Org 7.4; separate PC-BSD and FreeBSD localbase, allows running both PBIs and FreeBSD ports without touching the desktop; upgrade option during sys-install preserves users PBIs, ports and home directory while updating PC-BSD; improved online update manager, uses less CPU resources; desktop speed improvements.

New in version 7.0.2 (December 12th, 2008)

Updated KDE to 4.1.3

Improved the Online Updater tool, to support proxy servers, and use custom TMPDIR